The employed experimental method in this Ph.D. dissertation research is the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique specializing in high real space resolution local structure determination. The PDF is obtained via Fourier transform from powder total scattering data including the important local structural information in the diffuse scattering intensities underneath, and in-between, the Bragg peaks. Having long been used to study liquids and amorphous materials, the PDF technique has been recently successfully applied to highly crystalline materials owing to the advances in modern X-ray and neutron sources and computing power.Here we apply the PDF method to CdSe nanoparticles and refine quantitative
structural parameters to a series of CdSe ... [169] developed an analytical model
for the size-induced strain and stiffness of a nanocrystal from the perspective of
thermodynamics and a continuum medium approach. ... Carter et al. [171] studied
a series of CdSe nanoparticles using the EXAFS method. In the first shell Figure
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